Taboo replacements

[Eduard Selleslagh]

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From: JoatSimeon at aol.com <JoatSimeon at aol.com>
Date: zaterdag 10 april 1999 10:51

>In a message dated 4/8/99 9:07:20 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
>nicholas.widdows at traceplc.co.uk writes:

>>What would constitute evidence for this, and for "brown" or "honey-eater"
>>over the ursa/arktos/rakshasa root, being a taboo replacement, as opposed to
>>a common-or-garden lexical innovation?

>Exactly.  After all, there was no taboo making the Romance languages shift
>their work for "horse" from the Latin derivative of *ekwos to "caballus".

>Aparently it was simply a shift, as if we'd stopped using "horse" and
>substituted "nag" or "glue-bait" or "cayuse".

[E. Selleslagh]

Or the corresponding Du. 'ros', (nowadays southern) Germ. 'Ross' > 'paard'
(in many Flemish dialects 'peerd' or 'pjeed'), 'Pferd'.

Ed. Selleslagh